cyclone

Cyclone is a library of PureData classes, bringing some level
of compatibility between Max/MSP and Pd environments. Although
being itself in the early stage of development, it is meant to
eventually become part of a much larger project, aiming at
unification and standardization of computer musician's
tools.

In its current form, cyclone is mainly for people using both
Max and Pd, and thus wanting to develop cross-platform patches.
In this respect, cyclone has much in common with Thomas Grill's
flext, and flext-based externals. See Thomas'
page. While flext enables developing new
cross-platform classes, cyclone makes existing classes
cross-platform.

Cyclone also comes handy, somewhat, in the task of importing
Max/MSP patches into Pd. Do not expect miracles, though, it is
usually not an easy task.

The entire cyclone library, which might be preloaded
with either -lib cyclone
or -lib maxmode option,
consists of:

optional dummies sub-library, which contains a large
set of dummy classes, serving as substitutions for Max/MSP classes
not (yet) implemented in cyclone;

maxmode sub-library, which imposes strict compatibility
mode, and loads all the other components,
including dummies.

The two main sub-libraries might be loaded separately, by
using&nbsp -lib hammer and/or &nbsp
-lib sickle options. There is also a
possibility of loading any single class from hammer or
sickle library dynamically (this feature is only available
in the linux snapshot).

Cyclone comes without any documentation. All the included
patches were created merely for testing.

Caveats:

The binaries provided in this snapshot release are not
expected to run inside of a pre-0.36 version of Pd, without
prior recompiling.

If a single -lib cyclone
startup option is used, cyclone in turn loads its two main
components: hammer and sickle.
If a single -lib maxmode
startup option is used, all the remaining library components are
going to be loaded: cyclone, hammer,
sickle, and dummies. In these cases, all
the required libraries should be accessible by Pd.

Be warned: careless use of this snapshot release may
prove dangerous to your (pure) data and mental health...